Across
- 4. to determine the importance of data collected
- 6. able to be changed
- 9. measurements (numbers) used to describe data
- 11. using your five senses (seeing, sound, hearing, touching, smelling)to gain information
- 13. carefully thought out explanations based on observations
- 14. based on observations to make a guess about what might happen
Down
- 1. a system used to describe data and put them into different categories
- 2. scientific procedure used to test a hypothesis
- 3. basic steps of the scientific method; critical thinking
- 5. observations used to gather and describe data; not using numbers
- 7. description based on repeated observations and experiments
- 8. educated guess
- 10. facts or information collected
- 12. representative of something to difficult to observe directly (ex. cell, solar system)
- 15. conclusion based on evidence